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Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

  • ampressman · 8 months ago
    Great advice - thanks. In my case, going from a 500 GB drive to a 2 TB drive, it took the Disk Utility seven (!!) hours to copy and and verify the data. Yipes. But all worked fine after that. I wrote it up on my blog at http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=716
  • Locksmith Madison · 8 months ago
    Good advice. Mac OSX rocks.
  • Seb · 4 months ago
    That was easy - thanks for the step by step tutorial, it works great!!!!
  • John Baughman · 4 months ago
    Microsoft missed the boot on disk formats!

    After remounting and selecting Erase Destination, it's working! Awesome, I love Macs!

    Thanks for the tutorial!
  • John Baughman · 4 months ago
    And that should have read BOAT not BOOT...
  • Jim · 1 month ago
    "And that should have read BOAT not BOOT..."

    If you're canadian, it works just as well. ;)
  • amplifryer · 3 months ago
    I'm upgrading a 12" 1.33 G4 iBook with a new 160GB drive and (before I read this) started by formatting the drive with the disk utility and now I've got time machine sending all the old data to the new drive (connected with a USB cable to a portable drive case). My plan is to take the new disk with all the backed up stuff and install it right into the computer. After reading your article, it seems like I should have just put the blank disk in the computer and used the OSX disk to reinstall everything from another time machine drive. Whatd'ya think? Am I wasting my time?
  • lairdo · 3 months ago
    Thanks so much for this write up and for including the problems section which I needed. Took the afternoon to copy over, but everything appears fine.